Canucks Sign Brock Boeser $ 17.625 Million for 3 Years

The Vancouver Canucks have signed restricted free-agent right wing Brock Boeser to a three-year, $17.625 million deal.

The Canucks announced Boeser signing on Monday.

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The 22-year-old missed training camp during the weekend as negotiations continued.

He posted a photo of himself in a Canucks jersey on Instagram after the deal was announced, with the caption: “Excited to be back, can’t wait to get going! See you soon #cominghome.”

The Canucks opened their preseason schedule Monday night against the Calgary Flames in Victoria and will host the Edmonton Oilers in Vancouver on Tuesday.

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Canucks GM Jim Benning said before Monday’s game that he was “extremely excited” to get a deal done.

“We’ve been working on this for the last three to four months,” he said.

“We found we had a lot more in common doing a short term deal.”

Benning said the two sides discussed a long-term contract but the three-year package was where they settled.

“He’s one of our core young players we want to build our team around,” he said.

Boeser, a native of Burnsville, Minnesota, was the club’s third-leading scorer last season with 26 goals and 30 assists in 69 games.

Selected 23rd overall by Vancouver in the 2015 draft, Brock Boeser was an NHL All-Star Game MVP in 2018 and a finalist for the Calder Trophy in the same season, despite a broken back cut short his rookie campaign.